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- <!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.366 2006/04/03 23:35:02 tgl Exp $ -->
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+ <!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.367 2006/04/11 19:26:42 momjian Exp $ -->
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<chapter Id="runtime">
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<title>Operating System Environment</title>
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setting <literal>kern.ipc.shm_use_phys</literal>.
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</para>
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+ <para>
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+ If running in FreeBSD jails by enabling <application>sysconf</>'s
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+ <literal>security.jail.sysvipc_allowed</>, <application>postmaster</>s
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+ running in different jails should be run by different operating system
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+ users. This improves security because it prevents one jail from
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+ interfering with shared memory or semaphores in another, and it
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+ allows the PostgreSQL IPC cleanup code to function properly.
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+ (In FreeBSD 6.0 and later the IPC cleanup code doesn't properly detect
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+ processes in other jails, preventing the running of postmasters on the
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+ same port in different jails.)
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+ </para>
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<para>
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<systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</> versions before 4.0 work like
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<systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</> and <systemitem class="osname">
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